Jay Sanderson
Contract of Jay Sanderson Extended Three Years
6/15/2015 2:53:00 PM | Football, General, Men's Basketball
Working with the Bobcats has given Sanderson the opportunity to call college football for a high-profile FCS program, which he calls rewarding. “We all want to do this to call football and basketball. Football is the glamour sport of college athletics, so to be the voice for a team that is perennially right around the top 10 and some years a contender for the national championship, who wouldn’t want to do that?”
Brian Fish doesn't profess to know a lot about calling play-by-play on the radio, but he does know about his mother. And he knows she is a big fan of Bobcat play-by-play man Jay Sanderson.
"My mom listens to every game (from her home in Indiana)," said Fish, entering his second season as Montana State's men's basketball coach, "and she just loves Jay. She always tells me, 'Jay said this,' or 'Jay thought that.' She hangs on every word."
For his excellence, Sanderson was awarded Monday with a three-year contract extension to remain Voice of the Bobcats by Bobcat Sports Properties, which manages MSU Athletics' multi-media rights and sponsorship initiatives for Learfield Sports. The contract takes Sanderson, who like Fish just completed his first season at MSU, through the 2017-18 academic year.
Sanderson came to MSU from New Mexico State, where he called women's basketball and volleyball, and says he has enjoyed the transition. "When you get into this business you want to be the voice of a school," the Wichita, Kans., native says, "but it's been better than I ever thought it would be."
Sanderson's enthusiasm is mirrored by Bobcat Athletics. Montana State Director of Athletics Peter Fields lauded Sanderson for strengthening the connection between the school's fans with its football and men's basketball teams. "Jay's enthusiasm on our broadcasts is contagious and he is a true professional," Fields said. "I am pleased he will be with us into the future and look forward to continuing to work with him."
Working with the Bobcats has given Sanderson the opportunity to call college football for a high-profile FCS program, which he calls rewarding. "We all want to do this to call football and basketball. Football is the glamour sport of college athletics, so to be the voice for a team that is perennially right around the top 10 and some years a contender for the national championship, who wouldn't want to do that?"
While Sanderson lauds the people he's worked with at MSU – including "everyone in Bobcat Sports Properties, the athletic department staff and Coach (Rob) Ash and Coach (Brian) Fish," and "the people on football broadcasts, Dan Davies and Riley Corcoran, and Brian Priebe on basketball broadcasts," – he said most satisfying has been meeting fans around the state this spring and summer.
"I didn't get a true sense for how much I appreciated it until after the season was over and I've gone around the state with the Bobcat Club," he said. "Getting to meet fans and speak in front of them, and having people come up to me and tell me they enjoy what we're doing, that's been great. I sit in a booth and talk into a microphone, and it's easy to lose sight of the fact that there are people on the other end listening, and that they hang on every word you say. That is humbling and flattering, and it's kind of overwhelming to know how much they care about it. It's a really special thing."
It's also special to one locked-in listener in the heartland. "Jay is so good," Fish likes to tell gatherings, "that my mom thinks we won about 15 games this year."
"My mom listens to every game (from her home in Indiana)," said Fish, entering his second season as Montana State's men's basketball coach, "and she just loves Jay. She always tells me, 'Jay said this,' or 'Jay thought that.' She hangs on every word."
For his excellence, Sanderson was awarded Monday with a three-year contract extension to remain Voice of the Bobcats by Bobcat Sports Properties, which manages MSU Athletics' multi-media rights and sponsorship initiatives for Learfield Sports. The contract takes Sanderson, who like Fish just completed his first season at MSU, through the 2017-18 academic year.
Sanderson came to MSU from New Mexico State, where he called women's basketball and volleyball, and says he has enjoyed the transition. "When you get into this business you want to be the voice of a school," the Wichita, Kans., native says, "but it's been better than I ever thought it would be."
Sanderson's enthusiasm is mirrored by Bobcat Athletics. Montana State Director of Athletics Peter Fields lauded Sanderson for strengthening the connection between the school's fans with its football and men's basketball teams. "Jay's enthusiasm on our broadcasts is contagious and he is a true professional," Fields said. "I am pleased he will be with us into the future and look forward to continuing to work with him."
Working with the Bobcats has given Sanderson the opportunity to call college football for a high-profile FCS program, which he calls rewarding. "We all want to do this to call football and basketball. Football is the glamour sport of college athletics, so to be the voice for a team that is perennially right around the top 10 and some years a contender for the national championship, who wouldn't want to do that?"
While Sanderson lauds the people he's worked with at MSU – including "everyone in Bobcat Sports Properties, the athletic department staff and Coach (Rob) Ash and Coach (Brian) Fish," and "the people on football broadcasts, Dan Davies and Riley Corcoran, and Brian Priebe on basketball broadcasts," – he said most satisfying has been meeting fans around the state this spring and summer.
"I didn't get a true sense for how much I appreciated it until after the season was over and I've gone around the state with the Bobcat Club," he said. "Getting to meet fans and speak in front of them, and having people come up to me and tell me they enjoy what we're doing, that's been great. I sit in a booth and talk into a microphone, and it's easy to lose sight of the fact that there are people on the other end listening, and that they hang on every word you say. That is humbling and flattering, and it's kind of overwhelming to know how much they care about it. It's a really special thing."
It's also special to one locked-in listener in the heartland. "Jay is so good," Fish likes to tell gatherings, "that my mom thinks we won about 15 games this year."
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